H-3 Air Force Base in northern Iraq.

Here is the Iraqi bomber squadron, sixteen Tu-22 bombers, equipped here. However, Iraqi pilots are not satisfied with the performance of this bomber. This slow aircraft is simply a living coffin for flying.

Especially during the Iran-Iraq War, every time they flew, they needed to be escorted by fighters, and were always treated as prey by F-14 fighters.

However, now, all such aircraft have been eliminated and withdrawn from the H-3 Air Force Base. The bomber squadron has received the new bomber, which is also the Tu-22, but an M is added to the back.

In terms of numbering, only an M was added, but in fact, this was already a brand new variable sweep-wing bomber, a very outstanding bomber designed by the Tupolev Design Bureau in the Soviet era.

The maximum take-off weight is more than 120 tons, the maximum range is 7,000 kilometers, and it has excellent high and low altitude performance, so it can perform supersonic penetration at low altitudes.

This type of aircraft is regarded as a thorn in the side by the United States. Several negotiations required the Soviet Union to cut this type of bomber. However, for the Soviet Union, it was a medium-range bomber, not a strategic bomber, and it was not within the scope of the reduction.

In fact, for the Soviet Union, it was used as a strategic bomber. During the Soviet Union, more than 300 were equipped, of which the air force mainly carried ground-attack missiles to bomb the United States, while the naval equipment mainly used anti-ship missiles, and the target was US aircraft carriers.

However, with the collapse of that powerful empire, the fate of such fighter jets became miserable.

A large number of fighter jets were eliminated, the main ones were the batch of fighter jets equipped in Ukraine and Belarus.

They have automatically given up their nuclear weapons and have no intention of confronting the West. Such bombers are simply useless to them.

However, if it was completely retired like this, it would be a considerable loss. Therefore, when Iraq sought to buy this kind of fighter jet, they immediately agreed that although the one in Iraq was looking to buy the latest Tu-22M3.

This model was an improved version of the bomber obtained by Tupolev in 1983, which adopted a new NK-25 engine, with increased thrust and reduced fuel consumption; the air intake was modified into a wedge-shaped, similar to the MiG-25; the angle of the main wing retracted was increased; the nose was redesigned, and a new Lennez PN-AD radar and NK-45 navigation/attack system were installed, which was even better at low altitude flight capabilities.

This type of aircraft first served in the Black Sea Fleet.

The entire Belarus and Ukraine have nearly 100 such aircraft, which certainly does not require so many for Iraq, and they cannot maintain the scale of so many bombers. Therefore, Iraq only bought the second-hand aircraft of the most advanced M3 model, a total of 32. The scale of their bomber regiment has doubled.

This type of aircraft is currently deployed at the H-3 base, but at critical moments, they can be deployed to Iraq's air base in Libya and Iran's eastern base.

After arriving in Iraq, these bombers have also been improved and can carry Iraq's own air-launched cruise missiles and supersonic anti-ship missiles introduced from the Soviet Union.

The arrival of these bombers has given Iraq's long-range strike forces a new development, while the arrival of another bomber has allowed them to step into the ranks of first-class air force.

Picture-160 strategic bomber!

As the most advanced swept-wing heavy supersonic strategic bomber in the Soviet Union, the Tu-160 is the Soviet Union's largest deterrent air force. It has two weapon compartments in front and behind. The two in front are 12.80 meters long. The rotating launchers inside can each carry 6 Kh55MS turbofan power cruise missiles. This missile with a range of 3,000 kilometers can carry a nuclear warhead with a power of 200,000 tons. The two rotating launchers in the rear compartment can carry 24 Kh15P short-range attack missiles with a range of 200 kilometers, or a conventional warhead with a range of 250 kilograms. Of course, if you are conducting ordinary attacks, the two compartments can carry a total of 40 tons of ordinary bombs.

Although the Tu-95 is also a large strategic bomber, it is already out of date after all. Therefore, Kusai is not interested in more than 70 Tu-95s in Ukraine. Iraq should not add too many models, which will cause trouble for logistics maintenance.

It is enough to have Tu-22M and Tu-160. Especially when introducing Tu-160, four hundred air-launched cruise missiles in Ukraine were also introduced. Although Iraq itself also has cruise missiles and they are developing the problem of mounting their own cruise missiles, Ukraine is useless. Instead of taking advantage of Russia in the end, it is better to introduce Iraq together.

All the spare parts of Ukraine's Tu-160 were also introduced to Iraq. Anyway, those things were useless to Ukraine. In the later stage, since Russia was also slowly producing Tu-160, Iraq could get accessories from Russia, but at that time the price was not as good as that. Especially the engine of Tu-160 was closed a few years ago, and even Russia itself was in a dilemma of no engine available. After restarting the production line, Russia had too few orders.

As time goes by, Iraq has made great progress in digesting and absorbing the Soviet Union in all aspects.

The United States also reached a peak of economic development. They have gotten rid of the economic problems caused by excessive consumption and made rapid progress in high-tech industries, especially electronic technology. With the rise of the Internet, the American high-speed information highway has allowed their economy to continue to take off.

Clinton worked hard and made great contributions, so he defeated Republican Senator Bob Doll with a great advantage and continued to be re-elected as president.

After being re-elected, Clinton can finally let go and do it.

He first targeted China.

For the United States, due to ideological issues, it has always been a boycott of China's rise. Now, the changes that have taken place there have made the United States wary enough. Their economy is developing rapidly and its trade with the United States has become a year-on-year surplus. After China's strength is strong, it is a real threat to the United States.

Moreover, the relationship between China and Iraq is so close. After the railway is connected, trade can be carried out through railways, which means that some special goods between them, such as China's nuclear bombs, can be transported to Iraq without the supervision of the United States.

Iraq's space industry is becoming more and more developed. They have successfully conducted the second unmanned space shuttle launch test, and are expected to be launched in a few years. There is no doubt that their ballistic missiles that could hit the United States a few years ago are now increasing.

It’s not that Clinton did not have strategic vision. The reason why he wanted to develop together was to help the American economy develop. Now, he can finally show his true political skills.

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For China, the ace that can be played is the Taiwan issue!

At the beginning, Bush, the old Bush sold 150 F-16 fighter jets to Taiwan before the election. Now, Taiwan's original parties have lost power on the Taiwan political stage. New parties have come to power and began to promote various remarks that will split Taiwan.

The United States had issued a communiqué as early as the late 1970s to support the one-China principle. However, politics has always been dirty. Americans did so out of the consideration of jointly fighting against the Red Empire. Now, the United States no longer has the threat of the Soviet Union. They have turned to economic exchanges with each other and have begun to curb politically.

So, Clinton began to make a move that was welcomed by the right-wing forces and accepted a visit from someone in Taiwan to the United States.

This led to a strong reaction from China, which was a brutal interference in China's policies and a defilement of friendship between China and the United States.

In response, China conducted several large-scale military exercises within several consecutive months, testing its own ballistic missiles that were enough to cover various key bases in Taiwan, and also conducted landing exercises.

Faced with the People's Liberation Army's exercises, the United States began to become nervous. They did not expect that China would have such a strong reaction. In order to protect Taiwan, especially the elections currently underway in Taiwan, to prevent the PLA from suddenly exerting force and using force to resolve the Taiwan issue at this time, they dispatched two aircraft carrier combat groups, the ** aircraft carrier and the Nimitz aircraft carrier, to assemble near Taiwan.

This was the most serious confrontation in the 1990s. The People's Liberation Army felt the tremendous pressure from the US aircraft carrier formation for the first time. At this time, they had more than 50 J-10 fighters and more than 40 heavy fighter Su-27 imported from the Soviet Union. However, even if all of these fighters were used, they had just confronted two US aircraft carrier formations.

Moreover, they do not have enough means to deter the US aircraft carriers. Although they have Flying Leopard fighter jets, they are equipped with their own C802 missiles with a range of only more than 100 kilometers and cannot break through the 500 kilometers of air defense circle of the US aircraft carrier formation.

However, they would never watch the US aircraft carrier formation show its power. With the order of the supreme leader, all five Han-class nuclear submarines opened up their bases. (To be continued. Please search for Astronomy, the novel is better, updated and faster!)
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